Improved machine for cutting soap



J. G. PERRY. Soap Cutter.

N0. 45,746. I Paten'tgd jan. 3. 1865.-

Wtn/assas Inventor:

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN G. PERRY, OF SOUTH KINGSTON, RHODE ISLAND.

IMPROVED MACHINE FOR CUTTING SOAP.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 4 5.746, dated January 3, 1865.-

box, A, is made to hold the bar of soap S, and

is left open on top or one side for the com'enience of placing the bar in position to be out. Near one end of this box scores or slots jj are cut down through the sides nearly to the bottom. A lever, B, is pivoted at x to one of the supports of the box A, so as to come directly under the slots jj in the sides that the Wire It may draw down into them, their sides serving as guides to keep the wire in place.

The wire R, which does the cutting, is fastened to the lever at 0 and a.

The use or operation is as follows: The

lever B and wire being raised, the bar of soap is laid in the box, and the place where it is intended to be cut is placed over the slots j j, when, the wire B being adjusted over the same place, the lever B is depressed, which brings down the wire with a drawing cut, as the end at (0 moves faster than the other end of the Wire. This severs the soap with neatness and facility, when otherwise it could not be done without crumbling and wasting.

My machine is intended more particularly for the use of retail dealers who have to cut up castile and other bar soaps in smaller pieces. It is also handy for the soap-manufacturer to use in cutting up the bars of toilet or fancy soap previous to stamping or molding the cakes.

Having thus described my soap cutter, I claim- The combination of the wire R, lever B, and box A, substantially as herein described, and for the purpose set forth.

JOHN G. PERRY.

Witnesses G. H. PERRY, J. E. PERRY. 

